October 2, 2026

Specified data directory does not exist – but it does…

anyone ever had a similar issue where the directory exists but Bitcoin-cli isn’t recognizing it? Perhaps this is related to me setting the folder up as a symlink to my external HDD?

Thank you!
aaronson

-Mac-mini:~ $ bitcoin-cli -regtest generate 1
Error reading configuration file: specified data directory "/Users/---/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin" does not exist.
-Mac-mini:~ $ cd /Users/---/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
-Mac-mini:Bitcoin $ ls
banlist.dat bitcoind.pid    chainstate  db.log      peers.dat
bitcoin.conf    blocks      database    debug.log   wallet.dat
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